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To: cripplecreek

So little time, so many galaxies....

I remember when I first saw a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NCG 224); I began to get an idea of just how big our universe really is.


4 posted on 07/12/2011 3:39:37 AM PDT by ixtl (You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
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To: ixtl

Up until about 1925 it was believed that our galaxy was the entire universe.


5 posted on 07/12/2011 3:45:14 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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